Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adopt a plan to eliminate the federal budget deficit. The candidates' failure to face up to the budget issue destroys the credibility of their suggestions for improving competitiveness. Without this essential first step, no other remedies will work...
...Harvard applauds the efforts of various parties to "work around" this rule. Offering free subscriptions, providing containers at the dorms, or adding more garbage cans are positive measures toward avoiding the negative consequences of this ruling. We look forward, however, to a day when the Harvard administration will adopt rules that help students, not impose barriers that must be creatively surpassed. The burden for solving this problem now rests on the freshmen themselves. The freshman class must stand up for themselves--they must register complaints in all forms: direct person contact, phone calls, and letters to the Freshman Dean...
...touch Social Security," seem acceptable. No candidate who actually hopes to win will dare say that he will raise taxes to bring down the budget deficit, or purposely bring up any other issue of substance. Despite professing sympathy to the needs of all Americans, candidates often seem to adopt the condescending attitude that by speaking in vague generalities, they'll con the living daylights out of them...
Although Du Pont has no company-wide policy of adjustable hours, all units are welcome to adopt them. The only two conditions: work must come first, and there cannot be any added cost to the company...
...with South Korea, the irony could not have been more resonant: Japan and Korea have been the most serious of enemies for more than a millennium. The last of Japan's invasions on the peninsula ended up with Tokyo colonizing its neighbor from 1910 until 1945, forcing Koreans to adopt Japanese beliefs, Japanese words, even Japanese names. In fact, the man given the honor of carrying the torch into the Olympic stadium was, symbolically enough, Sohn Kee Chung, the Korean who won the 1936 marathon running reluctantly under a Japanese name and flag and who became a symbol for Korea...